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But whether our Brethren did swear the Covenant with a purpose to keep it or no▪ and whether they have not endeavoured not to preserve but to destroy and extirpate the Reformed Religion, doctrine, worship, discipline and government in Scotland, and persecuted us because we assert it, or if more can be done then the proposals of the Army and the Parliament hitherto have done (if they do no more) to promove all heresies and errors contrary to sound doctrine, we must remit in silence to the only final determination of the most High. They are stronger then we; but I am confident the earth shall not cover the blood that is shed in Scotland, but it shall stand before the Lord against such of the Kingdom of England (for many generations) who engaged their faithful and well-minded brethren in a blind cause to establish abominable Liberty of conscience, Familism, Antinomianism, Socinianism, Prelacy, Popery, &c. And the righteous Judge of the world knows we never intended any such thing; but we might have believed the words of King Charles, who told us they minded not Religion in that war. But now when we are wasted, ruined, dispeopled, we are not only forsaken by these (whose safety, peace, religion and ⟨image 7⟩happiness, we minded with loss of our own lives (I with many others dare appeal to the Sovereign Judge of all the earth, in the sincerity of our hearts) but almost utterly destroyed, yet divers of the Sectaries profess they had rather fight against the Scots as against Turks. O Earth cover not our blood, arise O Judge of the world, and plead the cause of the oppressed, let all the Nations about, and the Reformed Churches, and all the generations not yet born, bear witness to this oppression and violence. For if such as did swear the Covenant, which was the only thing that engaged us, had said ingenuously at that time, we swear to endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine—lest we partake in other mens sin. But in the mean time we purpose to plead, print, write, preach, and in our places endeavour both in Parliament, and out of it;

But whether our Brethren did sweare the Covenant with a purpose to keep it or no▪ and whether they have not endeavoured not to preserve but to destroy and extirpate the Reform•d Religion, doctrine, worship, discipline and government in Scotland, and persecuted us because we assert it, or if more can be done then the proposalls of the Army and the Parliament hitherto have done (if they doe no more) to promove all heresies and errors contrary to sound doctrine, wee must remit in silence to the only finall determination of the most High. They are stronger then we; but I am confident the earth shall not cover the blood that is shed in Scotland, but it shall stand before the Lord against such of the Kingdome of England (for many generations) who ingaged their faithfull and well-minded brethren in a blinde cause to establish abominable Liberty of conscience, Familisme, Antinomianisme, Socinianisme, Prelacy, Popery, &c. And the righteous Judge of the world knowes wee never intended any such thing; but we might have beleeved the words of King Charles, who told us they minded not Religion in that war. But now when we are wasted, ruined, dispeopled, we are not only forsaken by these (whose safety, peace, religion and